Gemini

Week of May 20th

Mercury and the sun move into your sign on Tuesday, and not a moment too soon! You have a lot to talk about. Thankfully, Mercury cazimi gives you the words you need. You’re facing some realities about power—your own, your power in relation to others, and the uses and abuses of power by others. While you are wrestling with those realities, make sure to value yourself. Take care of what you value. Nurture yourself and, when it’s appropriate, ask for help so that your people can take care of you. Your natural ability as a wordsmith is in demand. We need our messengers to speak about what’s going on in the world right now.

Week of May 13th

You are only as sick as your secrets. What stories are you longing to tell out loud? Find a trustworthy person to share them with. Authenticity is not about full disclosure, so this doesn’t mean that you have to share all of your secrets in public. Maintain your boundaries; be discriminating about when you share, how much, and who with. When you lay down the burden of shame, you are reminded of your worth. Saturday’s full moon is perfect for a ritual to let go of what is hurting you and welcome in wholeness.

Week of May 6th

If something ends now, it’s because it needed to. Sit with your secret self and entertain your wild dreams about what will come next. You have the drive to lead something new. In a lot of ways, the only thing stopping you is your own unexamined resistance. This week, find at least one ally who can remind you of your worth and encourage you to move forward with enthusiasm. You have more resources than you are aware of.

Week of April 29th

Does the time you spend with people fill your cup, or do some of them drain what you have to offer and give nothing in return? This week, relationships challenge you to consciously share what you have to offer in loving, reciprocal exchanges. If the love flows both ways most of the time, you can accomplish much together. However, if there is someone who is always asking much and giving little, examine the inequality. You deserve partnerships that light you up. The new moon invites you to dream of what you want in the cycle to come.

Week of April 22nd

The whole question of belonging may feel just as challenging as it did last week. The key is still self-acceptance. People will treat you as you teach them to treat you, and they’ll pick up a lot of cues from the way you treat yourself. So be good to yourself this week. A wild energy is building behind the scenes. You have some secret, imaginative ideas to consider. Make time for your inner world too.

Week of April 15th

Mercury’s move into Aries this week revives you. It’s like drying off in the warm sunshine after a cold ocean swim. You can communicate with more ease now. Your social life is likely to revive along with your voice. This brings up all kinds of questions about belonging, as you enter a season of connecting with your community. As Brene Brown says, your sense of belonging hinges on your self-acceptance. Present your authentic self, even if it means risking disapproval. Friday’s full moon in Libra speaks of self-expression and creative transformations.

Week of April 8th

Take stock of all of your resources this week. Not just physical resources like finances or property, but friendships, connections, education, talents, and strengths. You might have more going for you than you gave yourself credit for. With Mars in your sign, you feel the urge to move, and yet the direction is likely still unclear. Move slowly with the tides of your life. Change has always been your ally. If you’re looking for help, reach out to friends and community members. Your social network is a lifesaver right now.

Week of April 1st

Your vocational direction remains unclear this week. However, the time is right for dreaming (not necessarily doing). What would feel good to you? What do you secretly envision for the future of your vocation? When you picture your future self, what do they look like and how do they live? Setting aside some time for this vision now will help you make decisions later. It’s not a great week for action, just vision and intention. Friday’s new moon represents another small beginning in this cycle of spring. This is a renewal for your friendships and networks. Set intentions to renew connections with your existing community or find more members of your tribe. Examine any fear that you feel about this.

Week of March 25th

Venus in Pisces lends a delicate aura of glamour to your public image. Vocational endeavors are tinged with beauty...or they will be once Mercury is far enough away from Neptune to grant you more clarity about what exactly you’re doing in your career. This week, you might wish you could just nap through work. Directing yourself through Mercury retrograde conjunct Neptune is like sailing in pea soup fog. You’ll have to go slow if you move at all. When Mercury stations direct on Thursday morning, the fog thins but it doesn’t fully lift. That process will happen gradually over the next couple of weeks. Give yourself lots of time to mull over any decisions about where you’re headed next. On Sunday, Mars moves into your sign, offering you a much-needed jolt of vitality.

Week of March 18th

This Spring Equinox full moon coincides with a new beginning in your community. Perhaps you have wanted to spend more time with a certain group of people who share your interests. Perhaps you’re about to take a risk to connect more authentically with the community to which you already belong. This moon speaks of brave self-expression, beautiful creations, and love. Offer your love to the people who are open to receive. Offer it as a gift, with no expectations. Who knows, you may even receive love in return. Let the career questions sit until at least mid-April, when Mercury will be in direct motion and far enough away from Neptune to clear up your confusion.

Week of March 11th

It’s vocational déjà vu this week, as you find yourself back on the scene of past projects, answering to an old version of your reputation. What do you need to cut away? Are you still doing that thing for work that you once swore you would never do again, and if you are...why? Most often the reason is fear of failure or success. Talk your dilemma over with a trusted friend or partner. This Mercury retrograde dangles bait that threatens to hook you onto a line of past mistakes, identifies the career patterns that you want to let go of, and shows you where you’re playing too small. You have the potential for a Big, Jupiter-sized legacy. Work like it.

Week of March 4th

Mercury stations retrograde in your legacy sector on Tuesday. You may find yourself reviewing memories and history of your family, returning to career situations from the past, or reconsidering some plans for the future. Wednesday’s new moon could coincide with confusing vocational situations, or help you imagine new possibilities. Do less, say less, feel more.

Uranus moving into Taurus is the final stage of a big cycle for you. For the next seven years, you’re in a radical process of becoming. Uranus will plant the seeds of wild dreams in your mind, weed out old versions of yourself, and allow your individuality to flourish. You’re about to encounter the wilderness within. Uranus electrifies the most secret parts of yourself, so that they can no longer go unnoticed. The adventurer, the wizard, the magician underneath will start to come out into the open.

Week of February 25th

This is the last week before Mercury stations retrograde. Pisces, with its symbol of two fish swimming in opposite directions, feels natural to you for its mutable quality. But trying to think with your ruler Mercury here is like trying to speak through a snorkel underwater. The words come out muffled and alien, more like whale songs than the sharp, witty comments you’d prefer. Right now Mercury is helping you to revise something in your vocation. Sink into the water and practice communicating through other means. Gestures, songs, colors...you may intuit something meaningful by opening your mind.

Week of February 18th

When Chiron moves back into Aries on Monday, he may poke at that wound you have about belonging. You know, receiving love from other people for being exactly who you are? Don’t worry, because Chiron will help you get ready to show your transformation-in-process to all the right people. You’re not just one person, Gemini. You contain multitudes, so the process of understanding your identity is always unfolding. Chiron here will help you understand more about who you are now, and heal that wound from a culture that tells us we can only choose one dream. The full moon in Virgo makes this a big week for you too, with a lot of choices to make about your home and/or career. Where do you belong, and with whom? If you’ve decided to share your life with someone else, how vulnerable are you willing to be?

Week of February 11th

A social situation could be volatile this week. Be careful with your resources; set boundaries around your emotional energy. Your values will help you decide on the best course of action. Sometimes a confrontation handled well can clear the air. Valentine’s Day this year is likely to be a private, intimate affair. You may choose to skip it altogether and rest, or quietly spend it with someone special. This weekend, someone close to you may offer help with a dream.

Week of February 4th

This new moon is a refresher course in curiosity. You will learn something about the world and about yourself. Let loose and explore, preferably with a partner or close friend! The journey will certainly be interesting. Towards the end of the week, connections that you made on Monday may present a challenge. It’s fun to do things together, but make sure that you take care of yourself first. Practice saying “no” if someone asks too much of you. When Mercury enters Pisces on Sunday, you begin a two-month cycle of attention to your vocation, and you will need your energy for that.

Week of January 28th

With Mercury and the sun together in Aquarius, you’re in for a week of intellectual stimulation. Share your brilliance with others. Go on a mission to expand your knowledge in an unusual area of interest. Career dreams can come true when you get serious about stepping into your own power, and align your resources in practical ways. You’ll need to lay to rest some old assumptions or associations before you can own this power. Unusual conversations with other people in your wider network or vocation may spark some movement. When Venus moves into Capricorn on Sunday, she’ll spend a month helping you to access your inner boss. You already have everything you need.

Week of January 21st

Blessings come to you through a significant friend or partner this week. Let love into your life. Give love to someone else and it expands the love that you already have. In the aftermath of the eclipse, you may feel the tension of transformation, as letting in friends and being part of a community requires you to do the hard work of change. Your perspective is shifting. You’re in a season of discovery, and when Mercury moves into Aquarius on Thursday, your thirst for learning may increase. Invite others along on the journey with you.

Week of January 14th

Relationships hold the potential for fun and passion this week, while the undercurrent of Capricorn adds some seriousness. There is room for true intimacy here. All intimacy is a process of transformation, as two people close the space between each other and form a single relationship. Consider going deeper if your heart is calling you. This eclipse is the last in a cycle of changing perceptions and expanding your vision. It may have something important to teach you, so open your mind to new possibilities.

Week of January 7th

You won’t have to do this alone. Your capacity for endurance, renewal, and transformative insight is high this week. You’ve already crossed a threshold, and there is someone waiting for you on the other side of it. If you know who this is already, allow them to help you. If you have no idea who this might be, open yourself to the idea of partnership (friendship, business, OR romance) this week. This person can help you think bigger and get closer to your dreams.

Week of December 31st

Loss is a part of the cycle. Deaths (both literal and metaphorical) make way for new life. This is one of your lessons from 2018. As we enter 2019, you have graduated to the next level of this particular curriculum: acknowledging the endings and participating in the process of renewal. You may be asked to wait and see what comes next. You may be asked to rely on your own resources, or depend on your loved ones. However you are asked to handle this, know that transformation is the only way to do it. Embrace change in 2019.

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Bustle quoted me again, this time in an article about how to tell if someone with air sign placements is crushing on you. Link in bio!⠀
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"In order for an air sign to really start crushing on you, they'll need to connect with you on an intellectual level first. "Good conversation is essential to them," Goss says. So they may ask for your opinion on things like politics, pop culture, or anything that's worth talking about. According to Goss, air signs are the most driven by the exchange of ideas. "This lets them show off their natural intelligence and cleverness," she says. "They also do it because they really want to get to know you."⠀
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Image Credit: Andrew Zaeh for Bustle.⠀
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Just for fun! I was featured in Bustle's article on earth signs. Want to know if a Taurus, Virgo, or Capricorn is crushing on you? Link in bio.⠀
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'"Earth signs deal with the realm of the material, so someone with earth sign placements is likely to show romantic interest in material and practical ways," Goss says. They may show their interested through physical touch. For instance, they may place their hand on your arm when you're touching or stay close when you're walking together.'⠀
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Your weekly horoscopes are up! Link in bio.⠀
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Mercury enters Taurus today, where he slows down and contemplates before speaking, if he speaks at all. Mercury here is more about doing: growing things, building things, and expressing oneself through the manifestation of effort. Actions speak louder than words now. Mercury meets Uranus, sometimes called the higher octave of Mercury, in this sign (exact May 8th). Again, those themes of rewilding, radical pleasure, and the economy come to the forefront. What are you doing to rewild?⠀
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Some of that knowing comes through your nightdreams. Some of it comes through your daydreams: those visions of your future self that you just know are going to be real. You know it in your bones. If you tried to explain the embodied knowledge of your daydream self to someone else, that person might think you were talking about a wish, not a knowing. But if your body knows that something is true, you have to trust that. You don't have to tell anyone about it, and in fact it might feel safer not to. Let them be mystified. Go with your gut. Trust your bones.⠀
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It's Beltane and I'm taking the day to do some non-business-related activities: reading, writing poetry, planting, and candle-making. I don't think about having a "balance" between "work" and "life" because so much of my work now is a joy, and I'm grateful for that. I think instead about the wheel of my life: business, creative play, health, home, relationships, spirituality...and how much attention everything is getting. Is every plant in the garden of my life getting water and sunlight? Some need more than others at different times.
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In reading Team Human, I'm confronting my complicity with algorithmic systems like Instagram, designed to capture attention, persuade us to purchase, extract data, and keep us hungry for more. It's a sick system that I have chosen to avoid as much as possible in my personal life. The conundrum is in running a business when social media has become the marketplace. I am also here to persuade, but I am more interested in commerce, in running a sustainable business, than I am in constant growth. I want to reach those who are ready to awaken their consciousness with astrology and coaching so I can help them recover their own power and transcend this exploitative game. And I'm on here because I have to meet you where you are. Maybe my way of being a spoilsport is to invite you to read long book passages on a photo app, and to make those book passages about breaking the system?
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Oh, and btw, I got this from the public library. It's great; it's like an IRL internet where you can access all kinds of knowledge for free, except the information is much more likely to be accurate. + NO ADS.
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Read Team Human. Find the Others.
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Your weekly horoscopes are up! Link in bio.⠀
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Saturn stations retrograde at 21 degrees of Capricorn today. Just like every year, this retrograde lasts about 4 ½ months. Saturn will station direct at 14 degrees of Capricorn on September 18th. If you have personal planets between 14-21 degrees of Cardinal signs, you’re getting another taste of this salty Saturn transit this summer. This is yet another opportunity to reflect on your relationship to responsibility. What do you expect to reap, based on what you’ve sown so far? Are any of your actions out of alignment with your sense of integrity? Recognize real limitations and either work within them or work hard to push beyond them in responsible ways.⠀
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Image: Zodiac symbols painted Relief on the terrace of a Gopuram at Kanipakam Lord Shiva temple, via Wikimedia Commons⠀
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Happy to hear this feedback from my client Desiree, after her Story of You Consultation last week!⠀
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Have you ever reached that point when you were so clear on what you had to do that the fear dropped away?⠀
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Fear has no chance when our minds are made up. Fear loosens its grip on us when we have clarity about what must be done.⠀
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Clarity has that power. It diminishes fear the way light chases away the darkness.⠀
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What do you know is right? What do you know you have to do? What difference do you know you can make, right now, today? ⠀
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I was trying to do work @cocoagrinder but then I found this Mysteries of the Unknown series that Time-Life published in the 80s so nevermind.
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As the moon waxed to total fullness last night, I was in a room full of amazing women talking about equal pay with @ladiesgetpaid & @hiredinc. I went to this event to watch a microdocumentary about the gender pay gap, and listen to a panel of successful women talk about how we can close it. I heard stories from women who found out that they were making as much as $80,000 less than their male coworkers for doing the same job. And by the way, it's not because women don't negotiate. We do; we just don't get the salaries we ask for. We need to continue to ask for the money we deserve. We need to do research to find out what other people are being paid for the same jobs and experience, we need more pay transparency, and we need to hold companies accountable for compensation equality. There are a lot of things people say to make this issue seem more complicated, about women leaving work to have kids, or being overrepresented in underpaid jobs like teaching. But it's not really a complicated issue. It's simple discrimination. And the simple answer would be to value women and the work that women do the way we value the contributions of men. And pay us all equally. Now. This is what the higher potential of Uranus in Taurus represents to me: changing the economy. Knowing our worth. Rising up and demanding what we deserve. ⠀
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More on this + the Libra full moon in the Lunar Letter. Read & subscribe thru the link in my bio!⠀
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